Kednapa Thavorn

Kednapa Thavorn

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Associate Professor of Epidemiology and Public Health at uOttawa | Senior Scientist and Scientific Lead of Health Economics at the Ottawa Hospital Research Institute

Adjunct Scientist at ICES


NMD4C Involvement: Pillar 3: Clinical Practice Research

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Research Interests: Pharmacoeconomics, Health Economics, Pharmacoepidemiology, Outcome Research

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Biography

Dr. Kednapa Thavorn is a Senior Scientist and a Scientific Lead of Health Economics at the Ottawa Hospital Research Institute. She is also an Associate Professor with the School of Epidemiology and Public Health at the University of Ottawa, an Adjunct Scientist at ICES (Full Status). She holds a Ph.D. in Health Services Research from the Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation (IHPME), University of Toronto. She completed post-doctoral fellowship programs in Applied Pharmacoeconomics from the Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute, St. Michael’s Hospital and Health Services Research from the IHPME, University of Toronto. Her research focuses on health economics, health technology assessment, pharmacoepidemiology, health equity, care for people with complex needs, and population health. As a health economist, she has collaborated with patient partners, clinicians, researchers, and policymakers in Canada and other countries on various health services research and health technology assessment projects.  


Recent Publications

Andersen, CR, Fernie, G, Presseau, J, Shea, B, Marti, ML, Hostettler, IC et al.. International Position Paper on Outcome Selection After Aneurysmal Subarachnoid Hemorrhage. Stroke. 2026.57 (2)560-567 PMID:41498145

McIntyre, L, Fergusson, D, McArdle, T, English, S, Cook, DJ, Fox-Robichaud, AE et al.. A Crossover Trial of Hospital-Wide Lactated Ringer's Solution versus Normal Saline. N Engl J Med. 2025.393 (7)660-670 PMID:40503714

McIsaac, DI, Tandon, P, Kidd, G, Branje, K, Hladkowicz, E, Hallet, J et al.. STRIVE pilot trial: a protocol for a multicentre pragmatic internal pilot randomised controlled trial of Structured TRaining to Improve fitness in a Virtual Environment (STRIVE) before surgery. BMJ Open. 2024.14 (11)e093710 PMID:39510784

Niznick, N, Saigle, V, Marti, ML, Laframboise, J, Zha, X, Andersen, C et al.. Patient Relevance of the Modified Rankin Scale in Subarachnoid Hemorrhage Research: An International Cross-sectional Survey. Neurology. 2023.100 (15)e1565-e1573 PMID:36750387

McIsaac, DI, Fergusson, DA, Khadaroo, R, Meliambro, A, Muscedere, J, Gillis, C et al.. PREPARE trial: a protocol for a multicentre randomised trial of frailty-focused preoperative exercise to decrease postoperative complication rates and disability scores. BMJ Open. 2022.12 (8)e064165 PMID:35940835

Pike, A, Patey, A, Lawrence, R, Aubrey-Bassler, K, Grimshaw, J, Mortazhejri, S et al.. Barriers to following imaging guidelines for the treatment and management of patients with low-back pain in primary care: a qualitative assessment guided by the Theoretical Domains Framework. BMC Prim Care. 2022.23 (1)143 PMID:35659251

Shuldiner, J, Schwartz, KL, Langford, BJ, Ivers, NM, Ontario Healthcare Implementation Laboratory study team. Optimizing responsiveness to feedback about antibiotic prescribing in primary care: protocol for two interrelated randomized implementation trials with embedded process evaluations. Implement Sci. 2022.17 (1)17 PMID:35164805

Khan, F, Tritschler, T, Kimpton, M, Wells, PS, Kearon, C, Weitz, JI et al.. Long-Term Risk for Major Bleeding During Extended Oral Anticoagulant Therapy for First Unprovoked Venous Thromboembolism : A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis. Ann Intern Med. 2021.174 (10)1420-1429 PMID:34516270

Grimshaw, JM, Ivers, N, Linklater, S, Foy, R, Francis, JJ, Gude, WT et al.. Reinvigorating stagnant science: implementation laboratories and a meta-laboratory to efficiently advance the science of audit and feedback. BMJ Qual Saf. 2019.28 (5)416-423 PMID:30852557

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